An Analysis of the Italian Labour Market based on the Compulsory Communications Data

The Compulsory Communications system data contain important and so far under-investigated information on employment dynamics in Italy. They record all the activations, transformations, fixed-term extensions and anticipated terminations of employment relationships between any worker and firm since the beginning of 2008. Aim of this note is to exploit this recent database and provide useful up-to-date measures of the job dynamics in the Italian labour market. In particular, we estimate transition probabilities among different types of contracts and detect the main determinants of the probability of job activation and job anticipated termination.